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by djacobs 16y ago
Personal preference here, but I generally like to write the "full" version of configuration option names in my .vimrc (and when giving config advice to other Vim users), because after a month of not touching my RC file, it's easy to forget
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by djacobs 16y ago
Who's forcing? Javascript will work just fine.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I have no problem with Rails supporting CoffeeScript out of the box, as the abstraction is really good at showing the power of Javascript and not emphasizing its bad parts. (And, come on, list comprehensions in Javascript? Awesome.) No one
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by djacobs 16y ago
I've just finished interviews at several Web companies in California, specifically San Francisco, so I have a good feel for what people are offering. I can confidently tell you that the going rate is between $80,000 and $100,000 for softwar
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by djacobs 16y ago
This is, of course, a personal preference, but I would much rather have a column with a fixed width based on how many characters we can expect in that column. Lines stretching across the screen at 120+ characters can be unwieldy. That's the
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by djacobs 16y ago
I don't know if it's anger so much as confusion over why they are closing off the source that (up until now) they've called 'open'.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I think one answer to your question is "visibility". When you go to a Github project page, you're greeted with standard fork/download/commit links. But you're also one or two clicks away from viewing actual source inline. Yes, other website
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by djacobs 16y ago
I really don't like this solution. To fork and link to your own version of Rails just to get something like Array#sum is not sustainable. Yes, Bundler makes those first steps easy, but maintenance doesn't seem particularly fun after that (e
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by djacobs 16y ago
The way I code Python, this has a real potential to clean up any codebase I'm working on in a major way. (I've complained several times about the need for intuitive chaining in Python.)
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by djacobs 16y ago
Excellent, if my non-technical friends ever ask why I don't go to mainstream media for tech news, I'll point them to this article.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Fixed :) But really, isn't it time for a mobile Hacker News stylesheet?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Sure, you can have all of the things I listed in FP with some effort. My point is just that OO seems to be good at bringing them all together in a really useful way. (And that way isn't inconsistent with FP.) I aim to strike a balance, to u
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by djacobs 16y ago
My process is something like this: 1. Start with code centered around pure functions. This is a really good default for your project. It gives you flexibility, completely DRY code, and an easy way to think about concurrency. 2. Store large
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by djacobs 16y ago
If by some chance a programmer is a budding socialite, there is a good chance he/she isn't that great of a programmer. I strongly disagree. I know plenty of uber-social hackers who are good at compartmentalizing code and "bein
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by djacobs 16y ago
I had heard of Friends. Looks good. Nice hook.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Congrats to both of you. I'm still waiting on my hardcopy to read this from cover to cover. If the beta is any indicator, this is going to be a really compelling read. Any idea when the MEAP orders should start shipping?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Add a bunch of shit that could be trivially added if you still had macros. ... only now, they're standard, first-class citizens across all code using the language.
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by djacobs 16y ago
The color was just an example. My actual point was that the pages had been updated before features were announced.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Apple has already updated their iPad pages, perhaps prematurely. I haven't heard mention of a white iPad, but it looks like Apple has one made: http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/
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by djacobs 16y ago
From the article's comments: Ruby is a language designed in the following steps: * take a simple Lisp language * remove macros, s-expression * add simple object system (simpler than CLOS) * add blocks, inspired by higher order
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by djacobs 16y ago
FYI this is from 2007, though I have to imagine doing this would be even easier now that Rubinius is much more robust and stable (I mean there's an entire bootstrapped language for Rubinius now, Fancy: http://www.fancy-lang.org
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Will Rubinius be an acceptable Lisp?(on-ruby.blogspot.com)
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by djacobs 16y ago
That's what canonical URLs are for. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-y...
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by djacobs 16y ago
As someone who's a) moving to SF in 3 months and b) looking for a job there, this post was encouraging. I've heard a lot of buzz about SF in the last two months or so, not sure if it's because I'm moving there (and so I stumble on Bay Area
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by djacobs 16y ago
In my experience, RKWard frequently crashes when loaded with modest datasets (1700 data points or so for me). I wonder if RStudio has the same memory problems. If not, I'd be willing to give it a shot.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Yeah, it's false. We don't have to consume any one carbohydrate to survive, but in the end, the body's core processes use glucose (and others) to produce the energy we use to do work. Fat can be metabolized into carbohydrates, too. But one
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by djacobs 16y ago
Safari 5. It's not happening any more, apparently.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I like that Leo has a "best of" page, it works well for him (and with the site's aesthetic). I'm not always a fan of his suggestions, though. Browsing some of his archives, I see advice against eating grains [0]: They’re also packed ful
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by djacobs 16y ago
Security concern: clicking "log in" (without a username or password) logged me in as a user called "Zyfon".
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by djacobs 16y ago
As far as I know, IE9 isn't planning to support WebSockets, either. How does Microsoft expect to break back into the modern browser space if IE9 doesn't even match (let alone exceed) the current offerings from Mozilla?

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